Burney's Bytes will focus primarily on the local preps sports scene, but will also touch on some college and pro athletics, mostly in regards to athletes who hail and have played high school sports in Oakland County. My goal for the blog is to be conversational and anecdotal, a more relaxed and free formal take on high school athletics than you see in regular game day coverage.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Five For Fighting - Friday's Best

Five For Fighting – Best Prep Hardwood Outings From Friday Night

1 Damon Bozeman(MH Madison) – Busted up the Warren Lincoln 'D' for a career-high and OC season-high 43 points………WOW!!!! ........Bozeman is the OC's own Kevin Durant!!!!

2 Kyle Cooper (Novi Detroit CC) – Coop dug deep and came up with a PRIMETIME PERFORMANCE of 15 points and 10 boards in a much-needed Shamrocks victory against favored UofD-Jesuit on the road.

3 Poet Thomas (Birmingham DCD) – Thomas went all AMIR WILLIAMS by posting a devastating double-double of 19 points and 13 rebounds in the 'Jackets win over Belleville

About Me

Scott M. Burnstein grew up in Bloomfield Hills and attended school at Birmingham Roeper, where he earned multiple varsity letters in both basketball and baseball, and has been following the local preps scene since the 1980's. Mr. Burnstein attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he received a bachelors of arts degree in political science, and the John Marshall Law School, in Chicago, Illinois, where he got his Juris Doctrate. He has covered high school sports for both the Detroit Free Press and the Oakland Press, and is the author of the 2007 regional best-selling book, The Motor City Mafia - A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit, Family Affair - Greed, Treachery, and Betrayal in The Chicago Mafia (2010), Mafia Prince - The Crazy Phil Leonetti Story (2012) and The Detroit True Crime Chronicles (2013).